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The thing to observe is everybody has crossed the impediments of the vices, one by one, by His grace. This means each and every person can cross all the vices slowly if one cultivates steadfastness and bhakti with a calm and composed mind that enables one to respond to any given situation, that does not react. With bhakti and love of God or Guru, one can easily transcend these vices. One should have shradDhA, and steadfastness with patience.

O! Lord Muruga you are the one with the form, you are also one without a form. You are the one who has it all, and you are the one who does not have it all, you are present in the smallest, in the flower, in the ring of the bell, and in the Light. You are the embryo, you are the life, you are the destiny, and you are the fate. Please come upon us as our Guru and bestow your blessings.

Once a devotee of Kanchi Mahaperiyava went to have darshan of him and pleaded his low income was not enough to carryon the day to day expenses, and also to marry way his daughter. Mahaperiyava asked: Do you chant any swami slokas?He said: I am chanting Kandhar Anubhuti every day apart from sandhya vandanam on the three occasions on any day.Mahaperiyava said: In Kandar Anubhuti itself there is a request to Skanda to confer the you enough income, why do youworry? Continue to chant.

The devotee was wondering. Mahaperiyava explained: See the last song. GuruvAi, varuvAi aruLvAi guhane! varuvAi meansincome also, he will give enough income to you in due course. Do not worry. Keep chanting Kandhar Anubhuti.

Subramanian,". GuruvAi, varuvAi aruLvAi guhane! varuvAi means income also, he will give enough income to you in due course. Do not worry. Keep chanting Kandhar Anubhuti"

Truly typical of Kanchi Mahaperiyava!He pulls off these things from nowhere!The Devotee has now got the 'Varuvai' from 'Guru Vai'-How can the words of the Guru ever go amiss.I am sure it would have borne fruit.Namaskar.

The saint poet says: O my Master, give me devotion to pray to your two golden feet and and attain them.The devotees who are with ardent love for you, have reached your Abode already. I am merely standing outside.Like a blind cow (kurutu A ) goes on the basis of the sound of 'amma' by another town cow, I am (without adequatedevotion to you), I am going behidn them. I am crying for the love for your two feet. I am deluded. I am crying (dosome thing for my sake).

The saint poet says he is like a blind cow. It does know the way. But it goes behind (hearing the sound of amma) by anothertown cow (a good devotee). He does not know anything else. He is deluded. He is weeping. (He seeks the grace ofSiva!)

These oor A and kuruttu A, are a rare simile / metaphor which I have not seen elsewhere.

Once a devotee of Kanchi Mahaperiyava went to have darshan of him and pleaded his low income was not enough to carryon the day to day expenses, and also to marry way his daughter. Mahaperiyava asked: Do you chant any swami slokas?He said: I am chanting Kandhar Anubhuti every day apart from sandhya vandanam on the three occasions on any day.Mahaperiyava said: In Kandar Anubhuti itself there is a request to Skanda to confer the you enough income, why do youworry? Continue to chant.

The devotee was wondering. Mahaperiyava explained: See the last song. GuruvAi, varuvAi aruLvAi guhane! varuvAi meansincome also, he will give enough income to you in due course. Do not worry. Keep chanting Kandhar Anubhuti.

Tamil too is known as nectar - ThatTamil. is extolled as per with our lives !Tamil means the moon - that Tamil. to our society, is a percious boonTamil means fragrance - ThatTamil is our peoples peaceful homeTamil is an intoxicating charm - ThatTamil is the root of all our liberty"

Tamil is the cause of our valour - ThatTamil for the scholars, is a powerful arrow !Tamil lifts up high above the sky - thatTamil is an invigorating honey sweet !Tamil is the companion of our wisdom - ThatTamil, to our verses, is a diamond sword !Tamil, mother, carried us in her woumb- ThatTamil is a powerful and enthusing flame !

Yes. Bharati Dasan is a good Tamizh poet. He was living in Pondicherry (now Puducherry) and was meeting SubrahmanyaBharati often. He also wrote some poems. His name is Kanak Subburatnam. One day Bharati found his poems interestingand said: Oye, Kanaka Subburatnam, you are really a poet!. Ratnam also changed his name as Bharati Dasan.

Later, he traveled in a wrong path. Instead of being simply a poet, writing about Nature, Love, Tamizh and other such generaltopics, he became a Dravida Kazhagam activist and started writing against gods, brahmins, temples etc., He neither became a active politician nor a glorious poet. His stars did not rise further.

Nagaraj/Subramanian/Krishna(atmavichar)/Friends,Wonderful poem of Bharatidasan;I had intended posting it the moment I saw Krishna's comment.Bharatidasan's devotion to his Guru Mahakavi Bharati is something that lasted throughout his life.Bharatidasan was a wonderful person,very upright,downright honest,uncompromising in not pandering to anything selfish.Truly a noble soul despite his joining the Dravidian movement.Once it so happened that when he along with other DK enthusiasts were going along a road when he came across chellamAL bharati(wife of the Mahakavi)unexpectedly.He immediately went and greeted her and prostrated full length in that open road.When the other 'Rationalists' questioned him on this,he said-'This is my Iyer's consort'.He never used to call the Mahakavi by name and used to address him as 'Iyer'(Head,Chief).There was this other instance when AnDAL's TiruppAvai used to be played through the Loudspeakers in a nearby temple,near Bharatidasan's home,early in the morning during the month of mArgazhi.Someone lodged a police complaint that the playing is disturbing the Neighbourhood and their early morning sleep!Police approached the Temple Trusties and asked them to play it at low volume.News travelled apace that someone had lodged a complaint with the Police regarding the playback through loudspeakers of TiruppAvai.As usual rumours spread that it must be Bharatidasan ,since he belonged to the Atheist DK group and his home is in the immediate neighbourhood.This was conveyed to Bharatidasan who lost no time in organizing a public meeting that very evening.A huge crowd gathered and Bharatidasan announced that he had organized this meeting to clear the false Ground that he had lodged a police complaint.He said ,is a devotee of AndAL's sangath Tamizh maaLai of tiruppAvai and gets up early in the morning just to listen to the Broadcast and not miss it! He added 'I Go to sleep again only after listening to it'!If someone who doubts this,he may come forward....That was the end of that rumour.TGN has narrated stories of how Bharatidasan has served the Mahakavi by running errands like fetching water for drinking,etc.Here is a poem of Bharatidasan translated by TGN who considers Bharatidasan as a Hidden(veiled) Yogi:

PERCEIVE THE ONE

Should you not make a bid

to be rid of the multi-misery

flowing to you from

your own conditioning,

where you are acquiescing in

a thousand castes and creeds,

where you are paying court

to schemers who are,

fox-like in character,

and where you are swearing by

cults and schisms that are

egging us on to fight

like dogs amongst ourselves?

Real living is that

where your mind is in equipoise

with the distinction between “You” and “I”

obliterated for good

and there is unobstructed

vision of the One only…BHARATIDASAN (1891 - 1964) poem rendered into English by Sage TGN

Bharatidasan was a wonderful person,very upright,downright honest,uncompromising in not pandering to anything selfish.Truly a noble soul despite his joining the Dravidian movement.

Ravi and others Unfortunately to the extent to which Subramania Bharathiar songs are popular Pavendar Bharatidasan's songs have not been made popular and it is just confined to DMK,DK ,Rationalist and Atheistic circles in TN and Pondicherry . Might be because he expounded the cause of Tamil Nationalism and Atheism a lot than talking about God and a United India which Subramanya Bratahi did .But he has sung about Parasakhthi starting with "Engengun Kaanum Sakthi..."I and unable to get the lyrics of the same .If someone has it kindly share the same . The above film song "Sangae Muzhangu.." by Pavendar Barathi Dasan is what I listen to it regularly .

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